Canato’s work is oriented towards the male gender and his equity to a social/cultural orientation groups including the notion of belonging or rejection and the status that man is supposed to hold in society. Anima explores the inner feminine side of a man. According to psychologist Carl Jung the Anima is both a personal complex and an archetypal that expresses the fact that man psyche has feminine qualities. Moreover, in echo to Nelson Mandela’s Rainbow Nation suffering from special conditions in which skin colour was the determining factor, Canato imaginary skin tones making references to codes recognizable by all. Blue, green, red or white skin give human beings extraordinary character with codified powers. Thus, blue most often refers to divinity, wisdom and the protector and sympathy. To name a few Krishna or Shiva Indian divinities and in another register James Cameron’s fiction Avatar. Green mythical, red hell, porcelain figures purity.
